Chinese Characters Starting with "S start"

Every character has an origin. Discover the pictographs, myths, and history behind each Chinese character — with pinyin, stroke order, HSK level, and audio pronunciation.

姝

shū

This ‘pretty woman’ character hides an ancient a

姒

sì

A seven-stroke time capsule: 姒 encodes ancient Ch

妁

shuò

This 6-stroke character hides a powerhouse: 妁 isn

奭

shì

Born as a ritual platform towering over a human fi

墒

shāng

This 'plowed earth' character hides a sacred secre

塾

shú

Looks like ‘soil + ripe’ — but this character i

塽

shuǎng

This rare character hides a 2,000-year-old landsca

埘

shí

This 10-stroke character is a fossilized blueprint

埽

sào

This 'dike' character isn’t abstract — it’s a 2

埏

shān

This 9-stroke character captures the exact moment

垧

shǎng

A rare, regionally rooted land unit whose name sou

噬

shì

This 16-stroke mouth-on-tongue character originate

咝

sī

This character looks like three 'S' sounds drawn w

嘶

sī

Born from ancient hands tearing silk, this 15-stro

嘥

sāi

This 'waste' character doesn’t exist in ancient s

嗾

sǒu

This character began as a bronze-age command to mo

嗣

sì

A 'mouth' flanked by two 'completed cycles' — thi

嗜

shì

Born from mouth + ears, 嗜 captures addiction as t

嗖

sōu

Born from pure sound necessity — not ancient scri

嗍

suō

Born from folk speech — not ancient scripture —

嗉

sù

A 13-stroke anatomical term shaped like a 'mouth l

嗄

shà

This 'hoarse' character hides a botanical secret:

喿

sào

This 13-stroke character isn’t three birds — it

唼

shǎ

This 11-stroke character hides a moral bomb: 口 +

唰

shuā

Born in Qing-era storytelling, 唰 isn’t ancient

哂

shěn

This 'smile' isn't warm — it's Confucius's raised

呏

shēng

呏 isn't a real Chinese character — it's a digita

吮

shǔn

This 7-stroke character began as a Bronze Age sket

叟

sǒu

This 9-stroke character began as a pictograph of a

叁

sān

This 'three' isn’t for counting — it’s a financ

卅

sà

This four-stroke glyph is ancient arithmetic in in

匴

suǎn

A 2,300-year-old bamboo rice-washer preserved in i

劭

shào

Though it looks like a simple 'force' character,

剡

shàn

This 10-stroke character looks like a knife but na

凇

sōng

This 'icicle' character hides a pine tree in its b

兟

shēn

This rare 12-stroke character hides a Bronze Age s

兙

shi2ke4

This 'character' has zero strokes — it's a modern

兕

sì

A 3,000-year-old pictograph of a mythical beast —

儩

sì

A rare, elegant character where the number 'four'

僿

sài

This character looks like a person peering at some